Dr. Gert Würtenberger, MEISSNER BOLTE

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German, English

Education

Legal studies at the Faculty of Law of the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich and School of Economics, London

Internships, inter alia, at the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce, Mumbai, and at the law firm Matsuo + Kossugi, Tokyo

Scholarship Legal Studies, King’s College, London

Doctorate at the University of Marburg, dissertation on the subject “Die Priorität im Sortenschutzrecht” [Priority Rights in Plant Variety Law] (1993)

Professional memberships

GRUR, AIPPI (Member to Standing Committee on Plant Varieties), INTA, ECTA, ITMA, Deutsch-Polnische Juristenvereinigung e.V. (German-Polish Lawyers' Association)

Rankings

Leaders League 2024: Trademark Prosecution - Excellent

Managing IP "IP STAR 2023 and 2024": Trade mark Star

Gert Würtenberger is a specialist in the fields of trademark registration and infringement litigation, plant variety protection (prosecution and litigation), negotiating licenses in relation to all kinds of IPR and EU Law, as well antitrust law issues related to these fields. He is author of the leading German commentary on national and European plant variety protection and is the initiator and co-author of the book European Union Plant Variety Protection. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Süddeutsche Schiedsgericht für Saatgut- und Sortenschutzstreitigkeit [Southern German Arbitration Court for Seed and Plant Variety Protection], as President of GRUR [German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property] and as Chairman of the GRUR-Fachausschusses für den Schutz von Pflanzenzüchtungen [GRUR Special Committee for the Protection of Plants Varieties]. In addition, Gert Würtenberger is a member to Standing Comittee on Plant Varieties of AIPPI.

Attorney-at-law, partner, managing partner in a highly renown Munich based patent and law firm

WürtenbergerKunze Rechtsanwälte – Founding Partner

WürtenbergerRechtsanwälte – Founding Partner

Member of the Editorial Board of the British Journal “Intellectual Property Law & Practice”, Oxford University Press

Chairman of the GRUR Expert Committee for the Protection of Plant Varieties

Chairman of the Southern German Arbitration Tribunal for Disputes in Seed and Plant Variety Matters

President of GRUR – German Association for Intellectual Property Law and Copyright Law

WIPO Neutral

Blog-Posts/Newsletter

Publications

Lead co-author, Handbook of German and European Plant Variety Rights, 3nd Edition 2021

3nd Edition 2021

UPOV 1991 – A modern system of property rights for plant breedings or time for a new property right?

(Englisch Translation of UPOV 1991 – Ein zeitgemäßes Schutzrechtssystem für Pflanzenzüchtungen oder Zeit für ein neues Schutzrecht? published in Festschrift für Peter Meier-Beck zum 65. Geburtstag in GRUR 2/2021 (Commemorative publication for Peter Meier-Beck on the occasion of his 65th birthday in GRUR 2/2021), in pbrighst.eu (07/2021)

UPOV 1991 – Ein zeitgemäßes Schutzrechtssystem für Pflanzenzüchtungen oder Zeit für ein neues Schutzrecht?, in Festschrift für Peter Meier-Beck zum 65. Geburtstag, GRUR 123(2021), 2, Seite 397-400

Der Schutz von Pflanzenzüchtungen – Teil 1: Sortenschutzrecht und Sortendefinition/Teil 2: Antrag und Prüfung, in Taspo Nr. 8/9 (2021)

Patentability of Plants and Animals exclusively obtained by Essentially Biological Processes

in pbrights.eu (07/2020)

Protection of Trade Secrets and Know-How in the European Union

in A.I.P.P.I. Journal Japan Vol. 63 No. 1/2020

Brexit and License Agreements

in ip-iurisdictio.org, 01/2020

Genuine Use of a Registered Trademark – Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of 23 October 2019 in Case R 767/2019-2

in p-iurisdictio.org, 12/2019

Informed User and Freedom of Design – Judgement of the General Court of the European Union – T-209/18

in ip-iurisdictio.org, 11/2019

Use of a registered trademark – Effects of alterations in the form used

in ip-iurisdictio.org, 10/2019

First contours of European Law on damages in IP infringement cases

in ip-iurisdictio.org, 10/2019

Rubik’s cube“ als dreidimensionale Marke schützbar?

in News – Würtenberger Rechtsanwälte, Oktober 2019

Use of a figurative trademark

in ip-iurisdictio.org, 09/2019

Combination of two colours to be protected as trademarks – Regulation No 207/2009 – Article 4 and 7 (1)(a)

in ip-iurisdictio.org, 09/2019

Protection of trade secrets and know-how in the European Union: the EU Trade Secrets Directive (EU) 2019/943

in ip-iurisdictio.org, 08/2019

Sortenbezeichnungen und deren Abgrenzung zu Marken

in pbrights, Februar 2016

Selektiver Warenvertrieb und Vertrieb von Pflanzen über Internetplattformen

in pbrights.de, April 2019

Prüfungsumfang durch die Beschwerdekammer und Begründungspflicht

– Allgemeines Gericht- T-177/16 – Mema v. CPVO, in pbrights.de, Februar 2019

Sortenschutzrecht, in Handbuch des Fachanwalts Gewerblicher Rechtschutz

2. Auflage, Carl Heymanns Verlag (2010)

The position of the Board of Appeal in the legal protection system for Community Plant Variety Rights

in Intellectual Property and the Judiciary, edited by Geiger/Nard/Seuba, Elgar 2018

Zum Umfang der Amtsermittlungspflicht des Gemeinschaftlichen Sortenamtes

in pbrights.eu, 2018

Proof to be established to achieve nullity of a granted plant variety right

in pbrights.eu, 2018

Public Interest and Compulsory Licences

in pbrights.eu, 2018

Plant varieties

in Mediation: Creating Value in International Intellectual Property Disputes, Wolters Kluwer, 2018, (100-104)

Die Käuferwahrnehmung in der Demoskopie

in Festschrift für Wolfgang Büscher, Carl Heymanns Verlag, (607-618)

Brexit: What will happen with Community Variety Rights

in pbrights.eu, 2018

Invalidation and Nullity Proceedings – What is the Duty of the CPVO

in pbrights.eu, 2018

Compulsory License and Plant Variety Rights

in pbrights.eu, 2018

Die Lizenzanalogie in der Rechtsprechung des EuGH, in Anwalt des Urheberrechts

in Festschrift für Gernot Schulze zum 70. Geburtstag, C.H.Beck. 2017, (431-438)

Judgement of the General Court of 13 July 2017 – Case T-767/14

in pbrights.eu, 2017

Protection of plant innovation, in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and the Life Sciences

edited by Duncan Matthews and Herbert Zech, Edward Elgar, 2017

Parallel imports within the European Union

in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and the Life Sciences, edited by Duncan Matthews and Herbert Zech, Edward Elgar, 2017

EPO – New rules relating to patentability of essentially biological processes

in pbrights.eu, 06/17

Decision in case C-625/15 P ´Gala Schnitzer`

in pbrights.eu, 07/17

First Contours of a Damage Claim in Accordance with the Law on Community Plant Variety Rights

in pbrights.eu, 06/17

The object of plant variety protection and the scope deriving therefrom

VBIE (berichten industriele eigendom), Special/2017 Afscheidsnummer Paul van der Kooij, de Lex

Calculation of damages

in pbrights.eu, 04/ 2017

Brokkoli II und Tomate II – Sind Pflanzenzüchtungen patentierbar?

in pbrights.de, 01/2017

Opinion of Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona in Case C-625/15 P

in pbrights.eu 01/2017

Cancellation of a Community plant variety right

in pbrights.eu, 01/ 2017

Judgement of the General Court in case T‑105/19 – Designs as trademarks, in ip-iurisdictio.org

Risk of confusion and criteria to determine the same, in European Community Trade Mark Law

in E.I.P.R. Vol. 24 Issue 1 January 2002 – Also published in the A.I.P.P.I Journal of the Japanese Group. Vol 47 No. 4 2002

A Risk of Confusion in Community Trade Mark Law

First Contours in Case Law of the European Court of Justice and the Harmonization Office, in E.I.P.R. Vol. 21 Issue 10 October 1999

Handbuch zum deutschen und europäischen Sortenschutz / 1999

(Handbook pertaining to German and European Variety Rights Protection / 1999) Systematische Darstellung mit Gesetzestexten; 2 Bände, Verlag: Wiley-VCH (Systematic Depiction with Legal Wording, 2 Volumes, Wiley-VCH)

References to the European Court of Justice for a Preliminary Ruling in Trademark Matters

in The Trademark Reporter (INTA) Vol. 86 March/April 1996

Das Vorhabentscheidungsverfahren gemäß Artikel 177 EG-Vertrag im Markenanmelde- und Verletzungsverfahren

(The Proceedings for a Preliminary Ruling according to Article 177 Treaty of the European Communities regarding Trademark Applications and Infringement Proceedings), in Mitteilungen der deutschen Patenanwälte Heft 2 1996 (Communications of German Patent Attorneys, Issue 2 1996)

Determination of Risk of Confusion in Trademark Infringement Proceedings in the European Union

The Quattro Decision, in E.I.P.R. Vol. 16 Issue 7 July 1994

Die Priorität im Sortenschutzrecht – Centaurus Verlag (The Priority in Plant Variety Rights Protection)

in Dissertation Marburg 1992

Interlocutory Injunctions as a Remedy against Patent Infringement

in Germany in Patent World Issue 41 April 1992

Risk of confusion and criteria to determine the same, in European Community Trade Mark Law

in E.I.P.R. Vol. 24 Issue 1 January 2002 – Also published in the A.I.P.P.I Journal of the Japanese Group. Vol 47 No. 4 2002

WZG § 4 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 – Warenzeichen-Schutzfähigkeit, Zum Beschluss des BPatG vom 28.07.1989

(Trademark Law § 4 Clause 2 No. 1 – Trademark-protectability, decision of the Federal Patent Court of 28.07.1989), in Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwälte Heft 9 1990

Collecting Proof of Infringement in Germany

Patent World Issue 18 November 1989

A Champagne among Mineral Waters; Unfair Competition and Geographic Designations

in E.I.P.R. Vol. 10 Issue 5 May 1988

Begriffe Im Verkehr” und Höhe der Verkehrsdurchsetzung – strittige Problembereiche im Eintragungsverfahren nach § 4 Abs. 3 WZG

(The terms In Trade” and Degree of Notoriety Achieved in Trade” – contentious problem areas in Registration Proceedings according to § 4, Clause 3 Trademark Law), in GRUR Heft 4/1988 (GRUR – Journal of the Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright – Issue 4/1988)

Rolex v. Tchibo; Dimple and Rolls-Royce – Recent Decisions of the Federal Supreme Court on the Exploitation of Reputation

in E.I.P.R. Vol. 9 Issue 8 August 1987

The protection of computer-software in the Federal Republic of Germany

Computer Law & Practice Vol. 2 No. 5 May/June 1986
Würtenberger, G. Service marks in Germany, in< E.I.P.R. Vol. 7 Issue 11 November 1985

Zur Begründungspflicht von Zurückweisungsbeschlüssen im zeichenrechtlichen Eintragungsverfahren

(The obligation to justify revocation decisions in trademark registration proceedings), in Mitteilungen der deutschen Patentanwälte Heft 4/1985 (GRUR Issue 4/1985)

Enforcement of Community Trade Mark Rights

in Intellectual Property Quarterly Issue 4/2002 – Also published in the A.I.P.P.I Journal of the Japanese Group. Vol 48 No. 11 2003

Sonderausgabe Nanotechnologie Märkte & Visionen: Strategien zum Aufbau einer Marke (Special Edition Nanotechnology Markets & Visions: Strategies for coining a trade mark)

in VentureCapital Magazin Heft November 2002 (VentureCapital Magazine Issue November 2002)

Enforcement of Community Trademark Rights

in A.I.P.P.I. Journal Japan Vol. 48 No. 11 2003

Rechtliches Gehör, Begründungszwang und Präklusion im gemeinschaftsrechtlichen Markeneintragungsverfahren

(Hearing pursuant to the law, Obligation for Substantiation and Preclusion in Community trade mark registration procedures), in MarkenR 5. Jahrgang Nr. 6 Juni 2003 (Trademark Rights 5th Year No. 6 June 2003)

Enforcement of Community Trade Mark Rights

in Intellectual Property Quarterly Issue 4/2002 – Also published in the A.I.P.P.I Journal of the Japanese Group. Vol 48 No. 11 2003

Sonderausgabe Nanotechnologie Märkte & Visionen: Strategien zum Aufbau einer Marke (Special Edition Nanotechnology Markets & Visions: Strategies for coining a trade mark)

in VentureCapital Magazin Heft November 2002 (VentureCapital Magazine Issue November 2002)

Enforcement of Community Trademark Rights

in A.I.P.P.I. Journal Japan Vol. 48 No. 11 2003

Rechtliches Gehör, Begründungszwang und Präklusion im gemeinschaftsrechtlichen Markeneintragungsverfahren

Beweisrechtliche Fragen im Sortenschutzverletzungsverfahren

(Legal requirements to provide proof in plant variety infringement proceedings), in GRUR Heft 7/2004 (GRUR Issue 7/2004)

Breeder’s Rights

in FloraCulture International, Issue 6, 2004

Court Decisions

in Trademark Cases in Germany, in A.I.P.P.I. Journal Japan Vol. 49 No. 12 2004

Buchbesprechung: Trade Mark Law – A Practical Anatomy” von Jeremy Philips Book Review

Trade Mark Law – A Practical Anatomy” by Jeremy Philips, in GRUR Int. Heft 12/2004 (GRUR Int. Issue 12/2004)

The New German Design Law

in A.I.P.P.I. Journal Japan Vol. 50 No. 1 2005

. Questions on the law of evidence in plant variety infringement proceedings

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2006) 1 (7)

Co-author of the Handbook European Community Plant Variety Protection”

in Oxford University Press, April 2006

Community Trade Mark Law Astray or Back to the Roots

in European Intellectual Property Review – Vol. 28 2006

Equitable remuneration for non-licensed propagation of agricultural plant varieties

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2006) 1 (10)

The wheels on the train go round and round

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2006) 1 (11)

Beurteilung der Verwechslungsgefahr bei dreidimensionalen Marken

– Anmerkung zum BGH Urteil vom 26. 10. 2006 – I ZR 37/04 (OLG Frankfurt a.M.) Goldhase Evaluation of the Likelihood of Confusion of 3-Dimensional Marks – Commentary on the German Federal Court of Justice’ decision of 26.10.2006 – I ZR 37/04 (Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt a.M.) re Goldhase in GRUR Heft 3/2007 (GRUR Issue 3, 2007)

The Offering of patent-infringing goods for delivery subsequent to expiry of patents as patent infringement – SIMVASTATIN

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2007) 2(6)

It’s in the Touch (discussion of case law concerning haptic trademarks)

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2007) 2(7)

Book Review: The Cornerstones of Plant Variety Protection in India

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2008) 3 (5)

Interim relief granted against infringement of invalid patent

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2009) 4 (2)

Festschrift für Klaus-Jürgen Melullis, Wem gehört die Mutation einer geschützten Pflanzensorte?”

Festschrift for Mr. Klaus-Jürgen Melullis, titled Who owns the mutation of a plant variety right”, in GRUR Hefte 3-4/2009 (GRUR Issue 3-4/2009)

CFI Rules on Scope of Discretion for the Community Plant Variety Office

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2009) 4 (6)

Federführender Miturheber, Handbuch Deutsches und Europäisches Sortenschutzrecht

2. Auflage, Nomos Verlag, 2009 (Lead co-author, Handbook of German and European Plant Variety Rights, 2nd Edition 2009)

Chapter: The Protection of Plant-Related Inventions under the European Patent Convention in Festschrift

in Ensaios sobre o Direito Imaterial” for Professor Newton Silveira, Brazil. Rio de Janeiro: Lumen Juris (2009), 143-152

Book Review: An analysis of the European and Intellectual plant variety protection systems

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2009) 4 (12)

Review of Community plant variety decisions: the ECJ speaks

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2010) – 5 (9)

Summary of decision re Lemon Symphony

in UPOV Plant Variety Protection Gazette and Newsletter No. 103 July 2010

L’Oreal vs. Bellure: An Opinion (Commentary on Lord Justice Jacobs’ decision)

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2010) – 5 (10)

ECJ Decides on Scope of Discretion of Community Plant Variety Office – ECJ, 15 April 2010, C-38/09P Schräder v. Community Plant Variety Office

in Revista Eletrônica do IBPI – Instituto Brasileiro de Propriedade Intelectual 2/2010

EPA Decision of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of 9 December 2010 – Case No.: G 0002/07

in Revista Eletrônica do IBPI – Instituto Brasileiro de Propriedade Intelectual 3/2010

Wegfall des Schutzrechts vor Ablauf der regulären Laufzeit – Anmerkung zum BGH Urteil vom 29. 7. 2010 – Xa ZR 118/09 (OLG Dresden) Bordako Termination of protection prior to statutory duration of the regular duration

– Commentary on the German Federal Court of Justice´s decision of 29. 7. 2010 – Xa ZR 118/09 (Higher Regional Court of Dresden) Bordako, in GRUR Heft 11/2010 (GRUR Issue 11/2010)

The Legally Protected Functions of Trade Marks According to the Case Law of the European Court of Justice

in Revista Eletrônica do IBPI – Instituto Brasileiro de Propriedade Intelectual – 4/2011

Who owns the Rights to Photographic Reproductions of Historical Sites?

in Revista Eletrônica do IBPI – Instituto Brasileiro de Propriedade Intelectual – 4/2011

Würtenberger, G./Grau-Kuntz, K. Kapitel: Notas sobre os sistemas de direito de autor brasileiro e alemão, tendo em consideração a perspectiva de reforma das legislações vigentes e a procura de equilíbrio de interesses.

Englisch: Notes on the Brazilian and German copyright systems, in consideration of the perspective of reforms of the current laws and seeking a balance of interests, in Por que mudar a Lei de Direito Autoral? Estudos e Pareceres. Fundacao Boiteux, (2011)

Materialverkauf eines Dritten entgegen der Beschränkungen des Lizenznehmers

– Anmerkung zum EuGH Urteil vom 20. 10. 2011 – C-140/10 Greenstar-Kanzi Europe NV/Jean Hustin u.a. Sales of plant material by a third party contrary to the limitation of the licensee – commentary on the European Court of Justice’ decision of 20.10.2011 – C-140/10 Greenstar -Kanzi Europe NV/Jean Hustin, i.a. in GRUR Heft 1/2012 (GRUR Issue 1/2012)

Plant variety rights and breach of licence

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice – (2012) 7 (3)

The enforcement of judgements of Community trade mark courts

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice – (2012) 7 (5)

Europea Court of Justice – Decision of 12 July 2011 in Case 324/09 – L´Oreal SA and others vs. eBay International AG and others

in Revista Eletrônica do IBPI – Instituto Brasileiro de Propriedade Intelectual – 2012/6

Berechnungsgrundlage zur Festsetzung der angemessenen Vergütung – Geistbeck

– Anmerkung zum Urteil der ersten Kammer des EuGH v. 5. 7. 2012 − C-509/10 (Josef Geistbeck, Thomas Geistbeck/Saatgut-Treuhandverwaltungs GmbH) Basis for calculating equitable compenstation” – Geistbeck – Commentary on the decision of the First Chamber of the European Court of Justice of 5. 7. 2012 − C-509/10 (Josef Geistbeck, Thomas Geistbeck/Saatgut-Treuhandverwaltungs GmbH), in GRUR Heft 10/2012 (GRUR Issue 10/2012)

Farmers who do not comply fully with protected variety use obligations held to be infringers of such rights

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice – (2013) 8 (1)

The CPVO´s Schnitzer Gala

in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice – (2013) 8 (6)

A legal perspective on essentially derived varieties

UPOV, Seminar on essentially derived varieties, Geneva, October 22, 2013

Legal perspectives on Essentially Derived Varieties

in Revista Eletrônica do IBPI, Nr. 8, 12/2013

Nachbauvergütungen: Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme

in Rechtsschutz von Pflanzenzüchtungen, (Hrsg. Metzger), Mohr Siebeck, 2014

Book Review – Intellectual Property Law of Plants. Mark D. Janis, Herbert H. Jervis and Richard C. Peet

– Oxford University Press 2014, in Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (2014) 9 (8): 696-697, May 2014

Wann ist eine neue Sorte neu? (When is a variety considered to be new?)

in TASPO, 23 Mai 2014

German Federal Supreme Court, 18 September 2014 – I ZR 228/12 Gelbe Wörterbücher [Yellow Dictionaries]

in Journal of Intellectual Property, Law & Practice (2015) 10 (3): 220-22, January 20, 2015

Zum Schutzbereich geschützter Pflanzensorten (The Scope of Protection of Protected Plant Varieties)

EUGH – C-481/14 – Schadenersatz bei Sortenschutzverletzungen

– Teil I, in pbrights, Februar 2016

Gemeinschaftliches Sortenamt – A001/2015 – Standort der Prüfung

in pbrights, Mai 2016

Landgericht Düsseldorf – 2a O 122/15 – Markenverletzung durch Umverpackung

in pbrights, Mai 2016

Urteil des Gerichtshofs vom 21. Juli 2016

– C-226/15 P – Pink Lady vs. Englisch Lady, in pbrights, Juni 2016

EUGH – C-481/14 – Schadenersatz bei Sortenschutzverletzungen

– Teil II, in pbrights, Juni 2016

Decision of the Regional Court of Düsseldorf – 2a O 122/15

in pbrights, June 2016

OLG Frankfurt Beschluss vom 19.05.2016 – 6 U 89/15

The object of protection of plant variety rights

in pbrights, December 2016

Commission implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1448 of 1 September 2016

in pbrights, December 2016

Aufhebung eines Sortenschutzrechts

in pbrights.de, 01/ 2017

First Contours of a Damage Claim in Accordance with the Law on Community Plant Variety Rights

in pbrights.eu, 01/2017

Anpassung einer Sortenbeschreibung

in pbrights.de

Amendment of a Community plant variety description

in pbrights.eu, 01/2017

Sortenschutzrecht

in Handbuch des Fachanwalts Gewerblicher Rechtschutz 3. Auflage, Carl Heymanns Verlag, 2018

Sortenbezeichnungen und deren Abgrenzungen zu Marke – UPDATE

in pbrights.de.de, Juli 2019

Der Schutz von Pflanzenzüchtungen – Teil 1: Sortenschutzrecht und Sortendefinition/Teil 2: Antrag und Prüfung

in Taspo Nr. 8/9 (2021)

UPOV 1991 – Ein zeitgemäßes Schutzrechtssystem für Pflanzenzüchtungen oder Zeit für ein neues Schutzrecht?

in Festschrift für Peter Meier-Beck zum 65. Geburtstag, GRUR 123(2021), 2, Seite 397-400

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Publications

Lead co-author, Handbook of German and European Plant Variety Rights, 3nd Edition 2021

UPOV 1991 – A modern system of property rights for plant breedings or time for a new property right?

UPOV 1991 – Ein zeitgemäßes Schutzrechtssystem für Pflanzenzüchtungen oder Zeit für ein neues Schutzrecht?, in Festschrift für Peter Meier-Beck zum 65. Geburtstag, GRUR 123(2021), 2, Seite 397-400

Der Schutz von Pflanzenzüchtungen – Teil 1: Sortenschutzrecht und Sortendefinition/Teil 2: Antrag und Prüfung, in Taspo Nr. 8/9 (2021)

Patentability of Plants and Animals exclusively obtained by Essentially Biological Processes

Protection of Trade Secrets and Know-How in the European Union

Brexit and License Agreements

Genuine Use of a Registered Trademark – Decision of the Second Board of Appeal of 23 October 2019 in Case R 767/2019-2

Informed User and Freedom of Design – Judgement of the General Court of the European Union – T-209/18

Use of a registered trademark – Effects of alterations in the form used

First contours of European Law on damages in IP infringement cases

Rubik’s cube“ als dreidimensionale Marke schützbar?

Use of a figurative trademark

Combination of two colours to be protected as trademarks – Regulation No 207/2009 – Article 4 and 7 (1)(a)

Protection of trade secrets and know-how in the European Union: the EU Trade Secrets Directive (EU) 2019/943

Sortenbezeichnungen und deren Abgrenzung zu Marken

Selektiver Warenvertrieb und Vertrieb von Pflanzen über Internetplattformen

Prüfungsumfang durch die Beschwerdekammer und Begründungspflicht

Sortenschutzrecht, in Handbuch des Fachanwalts Gewerblicher Rechtschutz

The position of the Board of Appeal in the legal protection system for Community Plant Variety Rights

Zum Umfang der Amtsermittlungspflicht des Gemeinschaftlichen Sortenamtes

Proof to be established to achieve nullity of a granted plant variety right

Public Interest and Compulsory Licences

Plant varieties

Die Käuferwahrnehmung in der Demoskopie

Brexit: What will happen with Community Variety Rights

Invalidation and Nullity Proceedings – What is the Duty of the CPVO

Compulsory License and Plant Variety Rights

Die Lizenzanalogie in der Rechtsprechung des EuGH, in Anwalt des Urheberrechts

Judgement of the General Court of 13 July 2017 – Case T-767/14

Protection of plant innovation, in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and the Life Sciences

Parallel imports within the European Union

EPO – New rules relating to patentability of essentially biological processes

Decision in case C-625/15 P ´Gala Schnitzer`

First Contours of a Damage Claim in Accordance with the Law on Community Plant Variety Rights

The object of plant variety protection and the scope deriving therefrom

Calculation of damages

Brokkoli II und Tomate II – Sind Pflanzenzüchtungen patentierbar?

Opinion of Advocate General Campos Sánchez-Bordona in Case C-625/15 P

Cancellation of a Community plant variety right

Judgement of the General Court in case T‑105/19 – Designs as trademarks, in ip-iurisdictio.org

Risk of confusion and criteria to determine the same, in European Community Trade Mark Law

A Risk of Confusion in Community Trade Mark Law

Handbuch zum deutschen und europäischen Sortenschutz / 1999

References to the European Court of Justice for a Preliminary Ruling in Trademark Matters

Das Vorhabentscheidungsverfahren gemäß Artikel 177 EG-Vertrag im Markenanmelde- und Verletzungsverfahren

Determination of Risk of Confusion in Trademark Infringement Proceedings in the European Union

Die Priorität im Sortenschutzrecht – Centaurus Verlag (The Priority in Plant Variety Rights Protection)

Interlocutory Injunctions as a Remedy against Patent Infringement

Risk of confusion and criteria to determine the same, in European Community Trade Mark Law

WZG § 4 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 – Warenzeichen-Schutzfähigkeit, Zum Beschluss des BPatG vom 28.07.1989

Collecting Proof of Infringement in Germany

A Champagne among Mineral Waters; Unfair Competition and Geographic Designations

Begriffe Im Verkehr” und Höhe der Verkehrsdurchsetzung – strittige Problembereiche im Eintragungsverfahren nach § 4 Abs. 3 WZG

Rolex v. Tchibo; Dimple and Rolls-Royce – Recent Decisions of the Federal Supreme Court on the Exploitation of Reputation

The protection of computer-software in the Federal Republic of Germany

Zur Begründungspflicht von Zurückweisungsbeschlüssen im zeichenrechtlichen Eintragungsverfahren

Enforcement of Community Trade Mark Rights

Sonderausgabe Nanotechnologie Märkte & Visionen: Strategien zum Aufbau einer Marke (Special Edition Nanotechnology Markets & Visions: Strategies for coining a trade mark)

Enforcement of Community Trademark Rights

Rechtliches Gehör, Begründungszwang und Präklusion im gemeinschaftsrechtlichen Markeneintragungsverfahren

Enforcement of Community Trade Mark Rights

Sonderausgabe Nanotechnologie Märkte & Visionen: Strategien zum Aufbau einer Marke (Special Edition Nanotechnology Markets & Visions: Strategies for coining a trade mark)

Enforcement of Community Trademark Rights

Rechtliches Gehör, Begründungszwang und Präklusion im gemeinschaftsrechtlichen Markeneintragungsverfahren

Beweisrechtliche Fragen im Sortenschutzverletzungsverfahren

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